% Key papers for Natural gradient and Fisher approximations (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{iclr2019_a_29128, title = {{A Variational Inequality Perspective on Generative Adversarial Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/1129}, } @inproceedings{icml2016_low_35897, title = {{Low-rank tensor completion: a Riemannian manifold preconditioning approach}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/kasai16.html}, } @inproceedings{neurips2018_fast_57125, title = {{Fast Approximate Natural Gradient Descent in a Kronecker Factored Eigenbasis}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2018/poster/11908}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_distributed_28325, title = {{Distributed Second-Order Optimization using Kronecker-Factored Approximations}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkkTMpjex}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_practical_60599, title = {{Practical Quasi-Newton Methods for Training Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/16903}, } @inproceedings{iclr2018_kronecker_28558, title = {{Kronecker-factored Curvature Approximations for Recurrent Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/12}, } @inproceedings{neurips2016_provable_55946, title = {{Provable Efficient Online Matrix Completion via Non-convex Stochastic Gradient Descent}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2016/poster/7390}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_limitations_58547, title = {{Limitations of the empirical Fisher approximation for natural gradient descent}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/13574}, } @inproceedings{neurips2018_exact_57109, title = {{Exact natural gradient in deep linear networks and its application to the nonlinear case}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2018/poster/11577}, } @inproceedings{icml2016_a_35717, title = {{A Kronecker-factored approximate Fisher matrix for convolution layers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/grosse16.html}, } @inproceedings{neurips2017_diving_56262, title = {{Diving into the shallows: a computational perspective on large-scale shallow learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2017/poster/9160}, } @inproceedings{neurips2016_learning_55832, title = {{Learning a Metric Embedding for Face Recognition using the Multibatch Method}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2016/poster/6958}, } @inproceedings{icml2017_relative_36366, title = {{Relative Fisher Information and Natural Gradient for Learning Large Modular Models}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/458}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_understanding_61034, title = {{Understanding Approximate Fisher Information for Fast Convergence of Natural Gradient Descent in Wide Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17192}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_efficient_61901, title = {{Efficient Neural Network Training via Forward and Backward Propagation Sparsification}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27539}, } @inproceedings{icml2017_approximate_36069, title = {{Approximate Steepest Coordinate Descent}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/723}, } @inproceedings{neurips2016_improved_55781, title = {{Improved Dropout for Shallow and Deep Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2016/poster/8492}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_natural_37564, title = {{Natural Analysts in Adaptive Data Analysis}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/3916}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_kernelized_29522, title = {{Kernelized Wasserstein Natural Gradient}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Hklz71rYvS}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_nonlinear_65048, title = {{Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction with a Stochastic Neural Network}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54016}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_an_71714, title = {{An Improved Empirical Fisher Approximation for Natural Gradient Descent}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95572}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_improving_75220, title = {{Improving Energy Natural Gradient Descent through Woodbury, Momentum, and Randomization}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=5YMZfufpfY}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_revisiting_45802, title = {{Revisiting Scalable Hessian Diagonal Approximations for Applications in Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32650}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_a_73836, title = {{A Layer-Wise Natural Gradient Optimizer for Training Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93672}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_the_10976, title = {{The Gradient of Algebraic Model Counting}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34132}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_fosi_34312, title = {{FOSI: Hybrid First and Second Order Optimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18763}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_on_45686, title = {{On the Hardness of Probabilistic Neurosymbolic Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32766}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_on_45813, title = {{On a Neural Implementation of Brenier's Polar Factorization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32639}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_sassha_46244, title = {{Sassha: Sharpness-aware Adaptive Second-order Optimization with Stable Hessian Approximation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46316}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_fishers_48442, title = {{Fishers for Free? Approximating the Fisher Information Matrix by Recycling the Squared Gradient Accumulator}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44175}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_learning_49014, title = {{Learning Mixtures of Experts with EM: A Mirror Descent Perspective}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43609}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_randomized_54391, title = {{Randomized Advantage Transformation (RAT): Computing Natural Policy Gradients via Direct Backpropagation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=oVtiySvpXz}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_approximated_74524, title = {{Approximated Orthogonal Projection Unit: Stabilizing Regression Network Training Using Natural Gradient}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93058}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_stable_76914, title = {{Stable Coresets via Posterior Sampling: Aligning Induced and Full Loss Landscapes}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=OOQMahom6P}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_koala_77047, title = {{KOALA++: Efficient Kalman-Based Optimization with Gradient-Covariance Products}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Pvoy6fWaRJ}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_layerwise_90489, title = {{Layerwise LQR for Geometry-Aware Optimization of Deep Networks}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/148444}, } @inproceedings{neurips2026_em_91867, title = {{EM-NeSy: Expectation Maximization for Neurosymbolic Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/poster/149935}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_improving_44131, title = {{Improving Computational Complexity in Statistical Models with Local Curvature Information}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34321}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_structured_44662, title = {{Structured Inverse-Free Natural Gradient Descent: Memory-Efficient \& Numerically-Stable KFAC}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33790}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_near_47855, title = {{Near-optimal Sketchy Natural Gradients for Physics-Informed Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44747}, }